Taking out the holiday trash? Advice experts want you to know

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The first weekend of the New Year is perhaps the most common for tossing holiday trash, be it a Christmas tree, string lights, or other waste that’s piled up over the past month. The EPA says Americans generate on average 25 percent more waste during the holiday season, and all of that trash has to go somewhere. Unfortunately, it gets mishandled and misplaced more than you might think. “Holiday season is a time when a lot of us are buying more, consuming more, which leads to a lot more waste,” said Andrea McKennan, Ramsey County’s Environmental Health Supervisor. “People to figure out how to manage.” It’s estimated that Americans purchase, put up, and throw out more…